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A first look at how the counties voted and a chance to compare presidential votes with those of Prop 8 and others.

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If you haven’t been over to the Confluence today, go to Stateofdisbelief’s ruminations on Du Bois’s essay, and read how this “state of double consciousness” might apply to women.  Go HERE. (more…)

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Alert! A cannula (Plural is cannulae) is a tube, inserted into the body that allows for the transport of fluid, like blood. If you are in the medical profession or have a child who may need a heart operation, read this: (more…)

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I’m shaking my head, and trying not to waste perfectly good rage over this by howling and breaking things.

Michael Luo has been writing about Obama’s campaign donations, from the beginning. Mr Huo and I even had an email exchange over Obama’s reporting. I sent my concerns about donor counts in June, 2008.  So I wonder why we had to wait for the NYT to give us the truth after the election is over? If I can find this stuff over at the FEC, why can’t they? (more…)

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081126 – Wikipedia started a page for Rob Nabors. I’ve linked it to his name.

From Politico.com 

President-elect Obama announced announced Peter Orszag as Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director and Rob Nabors as Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director. Orszag is the Director of the Congressional Budget Office. Nabors is Clerk and Staff Director of the House Appropriations Committee.

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Orzag is connected with Joseph Stiglitz and There are quite a few things still available on the web for documents and article done by Orszag and the Sebago Associates, his first company. Do a search now and get what you want before they disappear.

Here a couple:

“Rethinking Pension Reform: Ten Myths About Social Security Systems”

“The Benefits of Flexible Funding: Implications for Pension Reform in an Uncertain World”

Wikipedia has not yet see fit to start a page on Rob Nabors, however he is listed on Obama’s transition team HERE. 

A Politico.com Bio on him is HERE.

I Own My Vote, PUMA, The Denver Group, Just Say No Deal

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Politico.com Breaking News:

Melody Barnes, former chief counsel to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) on the Senate Judiciary Committee and head of policy at the Center American Progress, will be named director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, officials said.

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Open Secrets has a little on her career HERE

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Politico.com Breaking News:

President-elect Obama plans to name Christina Romer, an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, to chair his Council of Economic Advisers, aides said.

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Her Curriculum vitae from UC Berkeley is HERE.

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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and bridges, and roads, and schools and energy! The first time in years, whoever the next Transportation Secretary will some work to do, and maybe some money to do it with. I’m skeptical however, that we are looking at a proposal something like the WPA.  I think there is a better than average chance the next Economic Recovery Plan will looks like some T. Boone Pickens, or Bechtel business-plan. You think I want privately run toll roads everywhere else? I guess we’ll see:

Obama Plan to Create 2.5 Million Jobs by 2011

By Kent Klein

Washington

22 November 2008

President-elect Barack Obama is promoting his economic plan to create 2.5-million jobs in his first two years in office. Mr. Obama says the plan will put people to work rebuilding roads and bridges, modernizing schools and developing alternative energy sources. VOA’s Kent Klein reports from Washington.

http://voanews.com/english/2008-11-22-voa15.cfm

President Elect Obama gave a radio address this time, and the transcript is aviailble HERE.

 

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So did you see Obama’s first televised  weekly delivery? Needless to say in the interest of modernity, it was on uTube. This means, of course, a whole bunch of us will not have privy to his pearls. If you can watch it, go HERE and send a transcript to the rest of us. In the mean time, he’s chosen more staff members: (more…)

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